{"id":227588,"date":"2016-07-03T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227588"},"modified":"2016-07-03T08:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T08:05:51","slug":"german-man-writes-own-obituary-bans-relatives-from-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227588","title":{"rendered":"German man writes own obituary, bans relatives from funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$0\">A German man has taken his grudges to the grave, telling relatives in a posthumous newspaper notice that some of them aren&#8217;t welcome at his funeral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$1\">News agency dpa reported Friday that Hubert Martini published his own obituary in the Trierischer Volksfreund, a newspaper in western Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$2\">The deceased describes himself as &#8220;open, honest and unforgiving&#8221; and says his five siblings and their families are forbidden from attending his memorial service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$3\">It is unclear what made Martini want to have the last word, but the 64-year-old notes that in life &#8220;I have hurt some people \u2014 and that&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$4\">Dpa quoted a local undertaker, Martina Schmidt, calling the obituary &#8220;out of order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$5\">&#8220;He wanted to settle scores and now the relatives have to live with that,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$5\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1z5pq4giss2.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$5\">Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German man has taken his grudges to the grave, telling relatives in a posthumous newspaper notice that some of them aren&#8217;t welcome at his funeral. News agency dpa reported Friday that Hubert Martini published his own obituary in the Trierischer Volksfreund, a newspaper in western Germany. The deceased describes himself as &#8220;open, honest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}